tukuln.
/ˈtʊkəl/ In Ethiopia and some adjacent regions: a dwelling shaped like a beehive, and constructed with a thatched roof.
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lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1901 H. Vivian Abyssinia vii. 174 The capital is rather a camp than a town, and there is no particular trouble in rooting up a tukul and planting it elsewhere.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 675/2 The tukls were strongly built of rough stone.
1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia v. 188 The office was a small, lightless tukal a hundred yards or so off the road.
1958 Spectator 18 July 111/1 I would not like my daughter to become the mistress of a kraal or a tukl.
1971 Daily Tel. 12 June 11/1 Rough compounds of mushroom-like tukals—round, mud-walled thatched peasant huts.
1981 E. North Dames i. 5 Thatched huts known as tukuls, some now with corrugated roofs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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